With these complications how can a government that does not have total control outside the capitalunite over 240 ethnic groups and have a chance of steering the country into the future regardless of what the Hmong do?
Whereas the PRI is planning to field Beatriz Paredes, a well-known figure with close ties to her party's machine in the capital, the PRD has struggled to unite behind a strong candidate.
During first minister's question time Mr Salmond said Scotland's two largest parties should unite to demand new borrowing powers, capital acceleration and Olympic 2012 consequentials, which he said were denied by the last Westminster administration.